Authentication: User information in IncomingHttpRequestFilter2 plugin?

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Hi,
I am trying to set up user authentication for Orthanc Explorer / Explorer 2. This works in principle, but I can’t get any further with the OrthancPluginIncomingHttpRequestFilter2. In the Lua callback to filter incoming requests I can see the information which user has logged in, but how do I find this information in the IncomingHttpRequestFilter2 plugin?
I would like to use the plugin because it would give me better options compared to a Lua script, but the user information is crucial for this.
Thanks a lot for your help!
BR, Dominic

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Hi,

If you are using basic auth, the user and its password are stored in the “Authorization” HTTP header (encoded in base 64) so you can extract the user name.

HTH,

Alain.

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Hi Alain,
Thank you very much for your answer! That helped me a lot!
It might be helpful for others if you could include this in the documentation (Orthanc Plugin SDK: Callbacks) in the future.
Thanks and best regards, Dominic

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Will be done in the future release (commit).

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